ViewPoint

AUGUST 14, 2012

This is the first in a series of four blogs about B2B Lead Generation marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Something else not well understood in many marketing and sales departments is the importance of certain metrics. Yes, while the cost per so-called raw lead was $23.15, the real cost per qualified lead was 1.96

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KoMarketing Associates

AUGUST 22, 2012

As Q3 draws to a close, B2B marketers are already thinking ahead to 2013, strategizing about what’s worked thus far in 2012—and what hasn’t. In 2012, 67 percent of survey respondents cited customer acquisition/lead gen, with 20 percent indicating they are more focused on brand awareness than they had been previously.

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ViewPoint

JANUARY 15, 2013

What is called “Inside Sales”, “Sales Support”, “Telesales” and dozens of other names is growing 15x faster than field sales—in fact, my colleague, Jonathan Farrington, published a blog stating that within three years 80 – 90% of all B2B transactions will be done online—most with some form of sales support but not field sales.

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ViewPoint

APRIL 17, 2012

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. Sales and marketing operate on different frequencies. Sales isn’t into sharing data. Marketing’s plate is full.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is the third in a series of four blogs about lead generation, marketing and sales metrics, and proverbs. Based on over 60,000 completed company dispositions per year (annualized for 2012). Managing “No Response” dispositions is not an art, it’s a science.

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ViewPoint

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Over the past few months I have had the pleasure of interviewing nineteen influential B2B sales and marketing leaders to discuss their views in areas like traditional and new media strategies, current and future trends, B2B lead generation, and sales lead management. Buying cycles are changing.

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ViewPoint

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

This is the question I posed: According to a report by SiriusDecisions, 2015 State of Account-Based Marketing (ABM), more than 60 percent of companies plan to invest in technology for ABM to better align sales and marketing over the next twelve months. Click here for part 1 & part 2.). Less than 50 beds. 50-250 beds. 250-500 beds.

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markempa

AUGUST 26, 2012

This is apparently not enough to make marketers and sales professionals embrace change and develop a formal lead generation strategy, considering that 75% of marketers still don’t have a formal lead generation process or guidelines according to MarketingSherpa’s 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report.

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markempa

JUNE 10, 2013

So, in the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report , we asked…. Using senior execs to personally do testing is still not cheap, but really talking to that many prospects is not only priceless but an incredible kickstart to building pipeline for the sales that follow the test. Select up to three responses.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2012

by Dayna Rothman The Lenskold Group and The Pedowitz Group recently released their 2012 Lead Generation Marketing Effectiveness Study. The study draws on 373 B2B marketers to discuss the practice of lead generation , marketing automation, ROI, and how they are all interrelated. 19% yes, but it is not integrated.

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Everything Technology Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2012

As every year, I asked the 25,000 marketing professionals in the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn about their B2B marketing priorities for 2012. And here are the results: 1 - Integration of social media Social media remains the #1 topic in 2012. What marketing areas are becoming relatively less important in 2012?

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 13, 2012

Nowadays there are hundreds and hundreds of online tools and platforms that assist us in generating, converting, and nurturing leads into sales. Leads are now email addresses, conversation is written dialog and content, and the phone is saved until later in the sales process. Paid Search.

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NuSpark Consulting

FEBRUARY 25, 2012

A sound content marketing plan is critical to the success of your lead generation efforts. Get Sales and Marketing together and look at your pipeline. world, how do you think leads get through the funnel? If you’re a content marketer, then you know the challenges you face. Some of the biggest challenges we see are: 1.

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markempa

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Despite ranking below 170 on the World Golf Rankings at the start of 2012, Piercy now holds the 41st spot at the end of the season. After winning the 2012 RBC Canadian Open, Piercy was eligible to participate in the Bridgestone Invitational. Guided by Buyers: 4 tactics to create a customer-centric sales and marketing strategy.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The Number One rule in B2B marketing: Never, ever, pass an unqualified lead to your sales force. Because they’ll hate you in the morning… But seriously, if the role of B2B marketing is to provide leverage to sales, then burdening a sales rep with a prospect who is not a realistic potential buyer is no help.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Tweet “One of the most important things you can do for your sales team is to generate qualified sales,” Kelly Harman, Vice President, Marketing, Carousel Industries, said at B2B Summit 2012. In this video excerpt from Harman’s presentation, learn how her team began their efforts by walking in Sales’ shoes.

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ViewPoint

JULY 19, 2012

Brian is Executive Director of Revenue Optimization at MECLABS where he leads business units that include Applied Research, Strategy Group, Conversion Group, Leads Group, Agency Group, Technology Group and Training Group. Brian is also CEO of InTouch and author of Lead Generation for the Complex Sale.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 24, 2012

Summer is a good time to look back at what has worked for lead generation and compare yourself with your peers as you plan for the second half of the year. You could use some of these findings to validate your own industrial marketing strategy and/or find some new ideas to fine-tune it for the remainder of 2012.

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markempa

OCTOBER 21, 2011

At the beginning of the webinar, Jen Doyle, MarketingSherpa Senior Research Manager and Lead Author of the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report , revealed that 1,745 marketing organizations are reporting remarkable declines in marketing effectiveness in 2011. 61 percent send leads directly to sales. • What does this mean?

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markempa

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Tweet In the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report , we asked 1,915 marketers about traffic volume and traffic that converts. Q: Which of the following sources generates the GREATEST VOLUME of traffic coming to your site? Thanks for sharing this,” said Fern Yit Lim, Online Sales Manager, Lufthansa.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 2, 2013

This post, along with 79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012 and 87 More Vital Social Media Marketing Facts and Stats for 2012 previously published here, provide a solid foundation for that understanding. What’s the key to generating more inbound marketing leads? B2B Lead Blog ).

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ViewPoint

MAY 3, 2012

The introductory post in this series addressed the problems and costs of applying the cost-per-lead metric to measure the success of B2B lead generation investments. In the second post, we looked at elements of a complex sale that impact B2B lead generation costs. Not seeing the forest for the trees.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 28, 2012

So before we look at calculating ROI of social media let’s understand the following: Social media marketing IS marketing; and that means the goal is leads and sales; no argument there. Social media is conversation, and that conversation leads to more followers and likes, and that means more opportunity to find prospects and alliances.

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NuSpark Consulting

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

So I was reading with some interest the 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report from Marketing Sherpa because I always like to see B2B marketers’ top challenges in their businesses, which not surprisingly, is generating quality leads. 78% of their biggest challenge is generating quality leads. Generate Leads: 46%. .

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markempa

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

in 2012, it had to start fresh – the company had no reputation to fall back on. Jenifer Lambert, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, TERRA, decided to use this opportunity to launch her sales efforts into the 21 st century. They outperformed direct sales because they simply had more credibility,” Lambert confessed.

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markempa

AUGUST 5, 2013

Tweet Content marketing is one of the most effective and widely used lead generation tactics, according to the MarketingSherpa 2012 Lead Generation Benchmark Report. Event Recap: MarketingSherpa B2B Summit 2012. Content Marketing: Your questions on B2B online lead gen, metrics, content from SMEs and more.

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markempa

JANUARY 21, 2013

CEOs need to look at the economics of competitive market dialogue holistically, with Marketing and Sales working together to walk customers and prospects through the buying cycle as economically as possible. A (relatively) small technology investment will help sales and event professionals work smarter. Invest in working smarter.

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ViewPoint

MARCH 13, 2014

Nick Stein, Vision Critical, Youth Meets Experience in Sales Force. Click to start video at this point —The young people entering the sales force are changing the dynamic between managers and their reps. Not so long ago, managers and their sales team were in one centralized location. That has pros and cons, Nick said.

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Tomorrow People

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Add to this by investing in specialist knowledge and skills to stay ahead and establish yourself as a leading force in your marketplace. For effective revenue performance management and to get your inbound marketing and your lead generation working truly in sync, you need to apply all the different aspects at the right time.

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ANNUITAS

JUNE 10, 2020

It is a strategic component of a company’s overall go-to-market motion — complementary to and collaborative with a company’s sales and channel organization(s). Optimizing demand investments against sales outcomes. Orchestrating customer engagement” includes: Educating along the buyer journey.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JANUARY 13, 2012

For B2B marketers, social media marketing ranks seventh in terms of budget importance trailing old-fashioned postal direct mail according to 2012 B2B Marketing Benchmark Report conducted by Marketing Sherpa and sponsored by Marketo. Where is social media marketing fit into your plans for 2012? 1. Weak U.S.

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Optinmonster

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But this post and OptinMonster almost didn’t happen… Our Crazy Origin Story In late 2012, I connected with my business partner Syed Balkhi at a WordCamp event in North Carolina. You see, we were pioneers in the advanced lead generation popup space. After the event, we exchanged emails discussing ideas for a new product.

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ANNUITAS

AUGUST 30, 2018

As we were going through a refresh of our targeted personas, we noticed an increase in engagement with leadership roles that have revenue responsibility (sales leaders, business unit leaders, and even CEOs). Why is marketing’s story so different than sales? Lack of Trust in the CMO.

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NuSpark Consulting

APRIL 26, 2012

Content drives leads into the funnel; content nurtures leads into sales opportunities. Marketing and Sales alignment is essential to a well-oiled lead funnel. I understand the importance of a sound media, social media, conversion and content strategy that generates quality leads until they are sales-accepted.

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markempa

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Some people say I’m an expert in B2B lead generation because I wrote a book on it, but you know what? This past year has been especially illuminating thanks to the brilliance of smart marketers who are expanding and perfecting the lead-generation concepts I wrote about years ago.

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markempa

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

for MarketingSherpa’s B2B Summit 2012. She works with Research Partners to develop teleprospecting programs where precisely the right people are given the right message to quickly convert them to leads. He develops and guides lead generation program that efficiently and effectively drive revenue for MECLABS Research Partners.

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markempa

JANUARY 7, 2013

Tweet Brian McGuire is one of those rare marketers who started in Sales and has held leadership roles in both Sales and Marketing. This experience provides him the broadest perspective of the entire lead generation funnel, from marketing engagement to close. This requires intense collaboration between Marketing and Sales.

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